Endtag attributes

[Paul Prescod]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 

> The only pro I can think of is pretty far-fetched:
> 
>  - might be easier to generate markup from some kinds of applications,
>    since attribute values would not have to be determined until after
>    the element contents had been written out

I think that optional redundant end-tag attributes would be useful, for
the same reason that the redundant end-tag GI (which should be optional)
is useful:

<SECTION ID="Intro">
   <SECTION AUTHOR="Paul" ID="Why.XML">
       <SECTION ID="XML.Strengths">
	10,000 lines of text
       </SECTION ID="XML.Strengths">
       <SECTION ID="HTML.Weaknesses">
   	 10,000 lines of text
       </SECTION ID="HTML.Weaknesses">
   </SECTION ID="Why.XML">
   <SECTION ID="XML.Tools">
   10,000 lines of text
   </SECTION ID="XML.Tools">
</SECTION ID="Intro">

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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